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Physical Security Systems Architect — Design & Pre-Construction

InOptra Digital Innovations Inc.United States🇺🇸United StatesPosted Oct 22, 2026

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Physical Security Systems Architect — Design & Pre-Construction
Duration: 6 months to conversion
Location: US-based, remote with travel for site surveys
Reports into: Enterprise Services & Architecture — physical security practice
The role
Design authority for enterprise physical security deployments — surveillance, access control, and the supporting network — delivered as part of branch and campus technology programs across commercial and federal customers. This is a design seat. You own the package from site survey through issued-for-construction drawings and commissioning support. You do not install, and the role does not touch monitoring or post-deployment operations.
What you’ll own
  • Site assessment and existing-condition survey; translating customer security requirements into a buildable design
  • Camera placement and coverage design — field of view, lens selection, pixel-per-foot against identification and recognition requirements, lighting and environmental conditions
  • Access control design — door schedules, reader and controller placement, lock hardware coordination, credential architecture, integration with existing head-end
  • VMS and storage architecture — retention modelling, bandwidth and throughput calculation, recorder and server sizing, failover
  • Supporting network design — PoE budgeting, switch and port counts, VLAN segmentation and isolation of the security network, IP schema, MDF and IDF layouts, cable paths and conduit routing
  • Issued design documentation — riser diagrams, device schedules, point-to-point drawings, elevations, bill of materials, specifications
  • Provisioning and commissioning requirements written into the package — authentication, certificate handling and device onboarding specified so the installing technician brings devices onto the network correctly the first time
  • Design-stage support to the installing contractor; review of as-builts and commissioning documentation
  • Gap analysis and capability mapping for customers standing up a security program, including migration paths off legacy or end-of-life platforms
Required
  • Overall 16+years and 8+ years designing physical security systems at enterprise or multi-site scale
  • A portfolio of issued design packages — drawings that an installing contractor built from without interpretation. Portfolio reviewed at interview
  • Working command of both the security platform layer and the network beneath it. This role sits on that seam; candidates strong on only one side will struggle in it
  • Current manufacturer certification on at least two of: Genetec, Lenel, Brivo, Axis, Avigilon, Verkada, Cisco Meraki
  • AutoCAD, plus Bluebeam or Revit
  • Familiarity with the governing standards — ONVIF, TIA/EIA structured cabling, NFPA, local AHJ requirements, and NDAA Section 889 where federal end-customers are in scope
Preferred
  • Design experience across multiple access control platforms, including integration between them
  • Background on an integrator’s design or pre-construction desk
  • Multi-site retail or banking branch estates — distributed rollouts rather than single-campus
  • Active US security clearance
  • BICSI RCDD
  • ASIS PSP

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